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Awesome post. Erik is the man.. in palm trees. Can we get a link to the books he references?

The close mindedness you have towards chrome is why it will succeed without competition. Lets face it. Most people in a year or two will be constantly connected via 3g or faster. Netbooks already today are coming with that capability built in. Additionally one of the key features of html 5 is the ability to run offline. Chrome is not aimed at the techy or professional. But for my parents who just want to youtube it, email and aim its perfect. The computer will work and I wont have to get calls about viruses or driver issues.

Tangent flame war, everyone is not necessarily going webkit. FireFox for example still uses Gecko and it works fine.

 

Charles I agree, although the Media Downloads combo box does blend in so it doesnt jump out at a quick glance. It seems any mention of browsers is going to get the flame war going.

 

For whoever flamed because C9 uses silverlight and not flash, you should wake up and realize flash is just as proprietary. Real open web stardard support would mean using and html5 player. Give it time friend, html5 will be everywhere shortly.

You mention that Parallel.For utilizes tasks, but always has better performance than tasks. How is this possible?

Disk to VHD is nice. I used it when vmWare came out with it about 3 years ago to get a demo pc setup ready for our sales team.

You're preaching to the choir by making this kind of video on this kind of site.

I was really let down by by this video. We're IT pros and developers here, we don't care so much about dirt throwing between corporate MS and Apple companies.

I thought ping was a view of whats going inside of Microsoft. This just isn't that.

 

Great idea to get people started! If I were to write games in silverlight though, I'd rather make my own library then depend on someone else's library/design decisions.

So social desktop is yet another thing that can do what Live Mesh can do...

I guess wide screen is a relative term.

I appreciate your work but I hate this. The first thing I do on an XP or Vista install is turn off the task grouping.
With no text on the items in the taskbar this doesnt seem like a possibility.

My issue, and this comes up in software design often, is by making everything visual and grouped... the problem of finding 2 similar apps with similar names is solved, however... if i know what i am doing already, now there is an extra step of mouse over and then click on the thumbnail to get back to my app. Further, if I have 5 or so IE tabs, that could mean moving my mouse back and forth across the screen. With monitors at 22 and 24 inches, this becomes a hassle.